1. Fundação Nacional de Saúde. A política brasileira de saúde indígena vista através de um museu.
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Teixeira, Carla Costa
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HEALTH policy , *SOCIAL policy , *PUBLIC health , *GOVERNMENT policy , *MEDICAL care - Abstract
This article analyses Brazilian state policy for indigenous health based on the inquiry of the recent historical, political and managerial process that resulted in the creation, in 1991, of the National Health Foundation (Funasa). I t attempts to bring together two lines of thought triggered by the examination of the Funasa Museum collection and by interviews with Funasa employees. T he threads thus woven should make possible, on the one hand, (i) to trace a genealogy of the National Health Foundation, and, on the other, (ii) to highlight its role in setting the hurdles that prevent the consolidation of a political field of respect for diversity in indigenous health policy. T he paper, therefore, consists of an approach which aims at pulling together biographic narratives with institutional memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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